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The most famous soldier in America : a biography of Lt. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, 1839-1925 / Arthur J. Amchan.

Title
The most famous soldier in America : a biography of Lt. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, 1839-1925 / Arthur J. Amchan.
Author
Amchan, Arthur J.
Publication
Alexandria, Va. : Amchan Publications, c1989.

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Description
216 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925
  • United States. Army > Biography
  • 1866-1895
  • Soldiers > United States > Biography
  • Indians of North America > Wars > 1866-1895
  • Generals > Biography
  • United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Biography
Genre/Form
Biographies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-216) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
From crockery clerk to major general -- Jefferson Davis' jailer -- Reconstruction, the Sioux War, and the Nez Perce -- Geronimo, Crook, and the Apache campaign -- The ghost dance and the Wounded Knee Massacre -- The Pullman strike of 1894 -- The commanding general and the Spanish War -- Embalmed beef -- Sampson-Schley and formal censure -- At Loggerheads with the president over the Philippines -- Rum, Romanism, and Roosevelt -- An apology for an apologia -- Forgotten history.
ISBN
0961713216 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^89085995^
OCLC
  • 21040836
  • SCSB-12376966
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library